It’s been 3 long months. It has cost us our relationships. It almost cost us a friendship and a partnership. It has definitely cost us our sanity. But it’s done. It is nestled inside its little book box and it’s on the way to Spokane. And now, all there is left to do is shake.
We’ve faced so many challenges in the last week with this damn presentation. Let me recount:
1. Color correction is the monster in Man’s world. Every single reference we pull looks wrong on every test monitor. After 6 hours of troubleshooting, we finally decided to completely throw away the SMPTE bars and sync to a neutral scene on an Alias DVD. It turns out nothing was ever wrong with our render. Sloane would be proud.
2. The book box got nails. Adrian’s cat has 9 names, but 8 lives. He lost one after attacking the book box resting on Adrian’s coffee table. Tastefully damaged, we say. Definitely organic.
3. My inkjet stopped working right at the moment we were about to print. We had the burn ready to go. The data image was nestled on its little layer of plastic. I bought fresh labels, fresh ink. I even gave the thing a little massage just as incentive to work well for us. And it didn’t. It’d print, but the color was off. Black was missing. I ran to OfficeMax and bought a new cartridge. Tried that one. Something inside the printer is dead.
4. The burn on Matt’s print frisbied. I refuse to buy a new printer right now and Matt has an Epson which prints directly on DVDs. Adrian went over there and they plopped in a blank disc and it printed brilliantly. K’veer shines brightly (in sepia tone). We pop it in my Sony drive, and the thing takes a crap. 10:00pm last night Adrian calls Matt to let him know he’s on the way over for another one.
5. Adrian is struck dead by lightning and devoured by evil monkeys from outer space. Not really, but it would seem to fit.
We’ll wait patiently now until we either a) get a call from Cyan, or b) get a call from Cyan’s attorney. Either one will be an answer. And an answer is all we need.
I said to Adrian today: at least after this, we can get off the roller coaster and start putting attention to other things.
Rand? It will be hard to see anyone else in that role… although – if they’re starting with Ti’ana – Atrus won’t really be in that… Ok – I’m getting ahead of myself! I can’t help it! It’s soooo great!